Minister dies watching Jesus movie

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[Pikamax]

Minister dies watching Jesus movie From correspondents in Rio De Janeiro March 23, 2004

A BRAZILIAN pastor died of a sudden heart attack while watching Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of The Christ," church officials said Monday.

Pastor Jose Geraldo Soares, 43, was watching the film, which has been criticized for its violent depiction of Jesus Christ's final hours, when he suffered a "violent heart attack" in a movie theater in Belo Horizonte, capital of the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, said Pastor Amauri Costa de Oliveira.

Soares did not respond when his wife turned to speak to him during the film. The couple was with their two children.

Soares was a member of the Eighth Presbyterian Church of Belo Horizonte, which reserved the entire movie theater so its 270 followers could watch the dramatization of Jesus' last 12 hours before his crucifixion.

The pastor's friends said his death was a coincidence and had nothing to do with the violent scenes showing Jesus being savagely beaten by Roman legionnaires.

The film was launched in Brazil on Friday.

It is the second death related to the film reported worldwide.

Peggy Law Scott, 57, fainted during the crucifixion scenes in a movie theater in Wichita, Kansas last month. She was taken to a hospital and later died from a heart attack.

Gibson's film has dominated the US box office, making 295.2 million dollars in the United States and Canada.

The Courier-Mail

[jellybean]

Don't worry about it...it happens. Someone reads something the wrong way and for whatever reason gets upset. Again, welcome to FR...you're not really considered a member until you've been flamed, ya know. You don't learn the secret handshake until you've been here 3 months.

[fatima]

I did not like this post and it hit me wrong,I did an interview on live radio with 5 almost teens.The post was about people afraid of dying.Two out of the 5 teens were afraid to see the movie because of the lady who died.The poster said after my post about the teens "if they die while watching it, you can just register them as Democats and haul their corpses to the theater for Dawn of the Dead, where they will come back alive as brain-dead Democrats. "
jellybean,I do have a funny bone ,I freepmailed Salve Regina
She is not a troll ,I post to make amends.

[jellybean]

I'm glad to hear you've straightened things out with Regina. I don't think she meant any harm.

(((((Group Huggg))))))

[fatima]

jellybean hug back to you.

[familyop]

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" (Exodus 20:3-5)

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" (Matthew 5:17-18).

[familyop]

"Caviezel – who notes his initials are J.C. and he was the age of Jesus, 33, during the filming – says he has had fans bow down before him, the New York Daily News reported."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37221

"About Frank Rich, the New York Times columnist who implied Gibson's father is "a Holocaust denier," the director had some choice – and inflammatory – words: "I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. I want to kill his dog."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34497